Was it the very Countess of Fleetwood penitent for her dalliance with the gambling passion, in feminine need of pastor's aid, having had report from Madge of this good shepherd?
His father expressed a certain surprise; his countenance was mild.

He considered it a merely strange occurrence.
Perhaps, in a crisis, a minister of religion is better armed than a philosopher.

Gower would not own that, but he acknowledged the evidences, and owned to envy; especially when he accompanied his father to the greengrocer's shop, and Mr.Woodseer undisturbedly said: 'Here is the place.' The small stuffed shop appeared to grow portentously cavernous and waveringly illumined..